What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

The art is long, life is short.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Be willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a fool of yourself, make a fool of yourself, but make sure that you end up on the front pages, not the back pages. In time, it’s possible that your company will stand out from the crowd, and you’ll be successful.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I can resist everything except temptation.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

A witty saying proves nothing.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Words are loaded pistols.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

Where there is love there is life.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Of two evils, choose neither.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

There is no wealth but life.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.